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... people to have independent businesses, almost all houses that have a spare room seem to have become a bed and breakfast. It makes sense looking at the money they can make out of it, even renting it very few days per month is huge already for Cuban standards. It was low season so plenty of choices again. I got an address from my friend, went there and negotiated a good deal, the house was empty so, the lady that owns the place was happy to give me a ...

... code to—if I had only given them my phone number I would have had to give up at this stage. The basic website for slow connections didn’t filter my spam and junk mail, so I had to sift through all the junk to find real messages to me. I chose four emails to answer, but couldn’t deal with two of them because I couldn’t get website links to load. In the end, I read a few emails and wrote two short ones. This took almost an hour. ...

... normal;">As our visit to Cuba winds down, we'll be leaving with wonderful memories of the people and places we met and saw, and we'll also take away a lot to think about. It's inevitable that your inner communist will struggle to get out- admittedly in my case, that's a relatively small being, but you do start thinking about solutions to the huge inequalities among people that are due primarily to luck and circumstance. Can I honestly say that I worked so much harder than ...

... the small town of Vinales in the middle of the Valle de Vinales, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Once in Vinales, we went to a casa particulares that a fellow traveler had recommended to us. Since the owner did not have any space left in her house, she redirected us to another casa further down the road. It was a lucky pick!

Pinar del Rio: where the world's best tobacco is grown

Cuba is famous for its cigars and tobacco, and in Cuba the Pinar del Rio region is ...

... about 15 congregate at the edge. Upstream is a waterfall trickling into a wide part of the river, directly below the bridge the river is much thinner & seems shallow. When taking this all in one of the Cubans stood up on the ledge as if to jump in!! I like ever other foreign person there thought he must be mad if he jump into that small piece of water.

The most charismatic Cuban turns and faces the group, puts his arms out wide & falls backwards doing ...